During the same period, the opioid death rate was 11.1 deaths per 100,000 people, with a peak of 14.9 deaths occurring in 2017. The crisis has left no state untouched, but has hit some counties harder than others.
The 10 states that had the highest five-year death rates from opioid-related overdoses between 2013-17:
- West Virginia — 37.6 deaths per 100,000 people
- New Hampshire — 27.2
- Ohio — 26.1
- Rhode Island — 23
- Massachusetts — 22.3
- Maryland — 21.4
- Kentucky — 20.9
- Connecticut — 19.7
- Maine — 19.5
- New Mexico — 17.7
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